Apple Podcast Rankings - Canada - Documentary

Discover the Top 100 Podcasts in Canada

Explore the latest data-driven rankings of the top 100 podcasts in Canada. Our comprehensive analysis covers the best Apple Podcasts across various categories, providing insights into the most popular shows, episode lengths, publication frequencies, and leading hosting services. Whether you're a podcast creator or an avid listener, find the top-ranked podcasts that everyone is tuning into right now.

Podcast charts from 24 May 2026

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05/24/2026

Average data

Episodes: 168

Frequency: every 26 days

Duration: 00:47:24

Top 5 authors

1. BBC Sounds (2 shows)

2. BBC Radio 4 (2 shows)

3. Sony Music Entertainment (2 shows)

4. The Observer (2 shows)

5. Ky Dickens (2 shows)

Top 5 hosting

1. Acast (25 shows)

2. Megaphone (18 shows)

3. Omny Studio (8 shows)

4. BBC (8 shows)

5. Simplecast (5 shows)

Rank	Name	Artist	Main Category	Eps	Hosting	Score
1	OnlyFantasy	Audible Original	Society & Culture	31	ART19	53
2	Focus: We Keep Us Safe	KUOW News and Information	Society & Culture	25	Omny Studio	73
3	Freakonomics Radio	Freakonomics Radio + Stitcher	Society & Culture	944	Simplecast	38
4	Au Parloir	Cédric Bergeron	Society & Culture	161	Acast	43
5	Sword and Scale	Sword and Scale	True Crime	22	Spreaker	84
6	The Hidden Third	Mariana van Zeller	Society & Culture	55	Megaphone	48
7	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	The Why Files: Operation Podcast	Society & Culture	313	Megaphone	42
8	The Telepathy Tapes Details temporarily unavailable	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	88	Acast	84
9	This Is Actually Happening	Audible Original	Society & Culture	358	ART19	68
10	What I survived	Jack Laurence	Society & Culture	71	Acast	83
11	Adrift	Apple TV / Blanchard House	Society & Culture	10	ART19	63
12	The Documentary Podcast	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	2000	BBC	33
13	World of Secrets	BBC	Society & Culture	101	BBC	53
14	The Secret World of Roald Dahl	iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	14	Omny Studio	78
15	Spiral \| Tortoise Investigates	The Observer	Society & Culture	117	Acast	73
16	Stories from a Stranger	Higher Ground	Society & Culture	26	ART19	73
17	Danny Jones Podcast	Danny Jones \| Daylight Media	Society & Culture	443	Megaphone	32
18	EXTRAS	Studio SF	Society & Culture	13	Acast	63
19	Lights Out Library: Sleep Documentaries	Olimpia Pérez	Society & Culture	146	Megaphone	68
20	What It Was Like	Superreal	Society & Culture	103	Acast	79
21	Ear Hustle	Ear Hustle & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	192	PRX	79
22	Wind of Change	Pineapple Street Studios / Crooked Media / Spotify	Society & Culture	16	Megaphone	53
23	Crimes non résolus	Cogeco Média	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	94
24	The Crux True Survival Stories	The Crux True Survival Stories	Society & Culture	271	Spreaker	69
25	Sold a Story	APM Reports	Society & Culture	28	American Public Media	62
26	The Pornhub Empire	CBC	Society & Culture	5	Triton Digital	63
27	Mind Games	Kaleidoscope	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	53
28	Decoder Ring	Slate Podcasts	Society & Culture	167	Acast	69
29	Hyperfixed	Alex Goldman & Radiotopia	Society & Culture	57	PRX	64
30	Uncanny	BBC Radio 4	Society & Culture	129	BBC	38
31	Black Box: The Chatbots	The Guardian	Society & Culture	51	Acast	68
32	The Turning - Seasons 1, 2 & 3	iHeartPodcasts and Rococo Punch	Society & Culture	42	Omny Studio	63
33	Heretics \| Andrew Gold	Andrew Gold	Society & Culture	709	Megaphone	53
34	Radio Marz \| پادکست فارسی رادیو مرز	Marzie	Society & Culture	92	Acast	52
35	Sweet Bobby	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	3	Acast	79
36	ChannelB پادکست فارسی	Ali Bandari	Society & Culture	105	Acast	69
37	Radio Ambulante	My Cultura, Radio Ambulante and iHeartPodcasts	Society & Culture	372	Omny Studio	73
38	Inconceivable Truth	audiochuck	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
39	Flightless Bird	David Farrier	Society & Culture	219	Megaphone	38
40	Inheritance	BBC World Service	Society & Culture	15	BBC	63
41	The Brothers Ortiz	Campside Media & iHeart Podcasts	Society & Culture	11	Omny Studio	79
42	Affaires sensibles Feed not publicly shared by the creator	France Inter	Documentary	145	N/A	N/A
43	Fatal Fantasy	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	79
44	All My Relations Podcast	Matika Wilbur & Temryss Lane	Society & Culture	78	Buzzsprout	62
45	The Crimes of Margo Freshwater	Sony Music Entertainment	Society & Culture	7	Megaphone	63
46	Passages, le podcast d'histoires vraies de Louie Media	Louie Media	Society & Culture	214	Acast	79
47	Thunder Bay	Canadaland	Society & Culture	14	Acast	59
48	Missing Debbie \| Bed of Lies	The Telegraph	True Crime	29	Acast	78
49	Personally: Agent Layla	CBC	Society & Culture	72	Triton Digital	63
50	搞钱女孩	搞钱女孩小辉	Society & Culture	193	Ximalaya	53
51	Scene on Radio	Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University	Society & Culture	141	PRX	59
52	Hoaxed	Tortoise Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	74
53	The Slow Newscast	The Observer	Society & Culture	452	Acast	74
54	The Underworld Podcast	The Underworld Podcast	Society & Culture	285	Megaphone	43
55	Pipeline	Daily Mail	Society & Culture	7	Acast	79
56	Noble	Wavland	Society & Culture	12	Simplecast	63
57	Artifacts: Stories from the Emotional History of the Internet	Danny Brown	Society & Culture	25	Captivate	73
58	I’m Not a Monster Presents… Where is Austin Tice?	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	38	BBC	58
59	Jungle Prince	The New York Times	Society & Culture	3	Simplecast	63
60	Debt Heads	Jamie Feldman & Rachel Webster	Society & Culture	13	Transistor	73
61	Boomtown	Imperative Entertainment and Texas Monthly	Society & Culture	15	Megaphone	64
62	Jimmy Akin's Mysterious World	Jimmy Akin	Society & Culture	300	Unknown	42
63	Fallen Angel	Audacy Studios \| Campside Media	Society & Culture	9	Acast	63
64	MIS(TER)GENDERED	Sar White	Society & Culture	6	Buzzsprout	58
65	The Paranormal Podcast	Jim Harold	Society & Culture	14	Megaphone	52
66	Manger les riches	Pier-Luc Ouellet & Colin Boudrias	Society & Culture	26	RSS.com	58
67	The Commune	Stuff Audio	Society & Culture	13	Megaphone	63
68	Strangers on a Bench	Tom Rosenthal	Society & Culture	100	Acast	59
69	Extreme	BBC	Society & Culture	18	BBC	69
70	Alien UFO Podcast Details temporarily unavailable	Simon Bown	Society & Culture	423	Simplecast	63
71	Rádio Novelo Apresenta	Rádio Novelo	Society & Culture	205	Megaphone	63
72	Conspiracy Files with Paige Carter	Forbidden Knowledge Network	Society & Culture	155	Spotify for Podcasters	52
73	PARANORMAL • Histoires Vraies	Minuit	Society & Culture	387	Audion	58
74	The Missing Cryptoqueen	BBC Sounds	Society & Culture	25	BBC	33
75	Real Life Ghost Stories	Real Life Ghost Stories	Society & Culture	1206	Acast	59
76	Telephone Stories	Ninth Planet Audio	Society & Culture	15	Acast	63
77	Belief Hole \| Paranormal, Mysteries and Other Tasty Thought Snacks	SpectreVision Radio	Society & Culture	157	Megaphone	63
78	Campus Files: Scandals, Secrets & Crimes at American Universities	Audacy	Society & Culture	99	WideOrbit	68
79	A Whole Other Country	Marfa Public Radio	Society & Culture	9	PRX	69
80	Be Amazed	Be Amazed	Society & Culture	504	RedCircle	43
81	Curse of: Miss America	iHeartPodcasts and Glass Podcasts	Society & Culture	20	Omny Studio	63
82	La Bibliothèque des Rêves: Documentaires pour s'endormir	The French Whisperer	Society & Culture	81	Megaphone	62
83	J'aime Hydro - édition 2019	Porte Parole	Society & Culture	6	Captivate	43
84	The Witch Farm	BBC Radio 4	Drama	13	BBC	53
85	Storytime	Storytime	Society & Culture	2000	Acast	69
86	JAXXON PODCAST	Jaxxon Podcast	Society & Culture	358	Spotify for Podcasters	38
87	Target Intelligence: PSYOP with Shawn Ryan	IRONCLAD	Society & Culture	12	Megaphone	83
88	The Telepathy Tapes	Ky Dickens	Society & Culture	94	ART19	83
89	Sumud Podcast: Inspired by Palestine	Dr. Ed Hasan	Society & Culture	116	Megaphone	68
90	A Shot At History	Fix The News	Society & Culture	4	Transistor	79
91	Johnathan Walton Media	Johnathan Walton	Society & Culture	54	RedCircle	73
92	Stolen Lives True Crime	Stolen Lives True Crime	Society & Culture	300	Audioboom	58
93	Direct Action Combat Podcast	infopnb	Society & Culture	32	Podbean	41
94	5CAST w/ Andrew Callaghan	Andrew Callaghan	Society & Culture	31	Buzzsprout	38
95	Haunted UK Podcast: History, Hauntings and the Unexplained	Haunted UK	Society & Culture	235	Acast	43
96	Leaving Eden Podcast	Leaving Eden LLC	Society & Culture	346	Acast	64
97	Dalton Fischer Podcast	Dalton Fischer	Society & Culture	23	Buzzsprout	42
98	The Know Rogan Experience	Cross Pond Productions	Society & Culture	94	Libsyn	62
99	The Arctic Edge	Agnico Eagle	Society & Culture	17	Spreaker	84
100	Political Lens	XLab Network	Society & Culture	5	Acast	39

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